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Definition of Continental glacier
1. Noun. A glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Continental Glacier
Literary usage of Continental glacier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
"The continental glacier of Antarctica. — In Victoria Land, upon the continent of
Antarctica, so far as exploration has yet gone, the continental glacier is ..."
2. Characteristics of Existing Glaciers by William Herbert Hobbs (1911)
"CHAPTER XVI CLIMATIC CONDITIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NOURISHMENT OF ANTARCTIC ICE
MASSES The Greenland Ice in its Relation to the Antarctic continental glacier. ..."
3. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1888)
"SOME EFFECT OF PRESSURE OF A continental glacier.' BY ALEXANDER WINCHELL.
The terrestrial globe in some of its behavior, may be compared to an India rubber ..."
4. College Physiography by Ralph Stockman Tarr, Lawrence Martin (1914)
"The ice cap merges imperceptibly into the continental glacier, which, ... In the
continental glacier there is a great ice cap, burying all the land, ..."
5. Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1898)
"On this supposition we should expect to find that the front of a continental
glacier, fed with pressure- molten water from all its interior district, ..."
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